Grit & Glitter

TKO (Hear It On The Radio)

Harley, Em, and Don are talking honor with women main eventing an ROH pay-per-view for the first time ever.  It was Death Before Dishonor with MOTY candidate Athena vs. Willow Nightingale and Leyla Hirsch vs. new Infantry member Trish Adora.  They also talk how flat weekly ROH has been, who's left after Athena's already beaten everybody, and the reinvention of Athena.
Plus: Em and Don were live at Wrestlers' Lab for their seventh anniversary show!

Feed My Magical Soul

Celebrating 21 years of Impact Wrestling, it's Slammiversary!
Harley and Mayydayy discuss Trinity tapping out Deonna Purrazzo to capture her first singles gold in six years, Masha Slamovich & Killer Kelly taking off the dog collar to put on some gold, Jody Threat hanging out with Death Dollz, and Gisele Shaw's embarrassing performance on The Amazing Race Canada.  We are bound for Bound For Glory and it all starts here.

Will You Swing Up To The Sun With Me?

Em and Lindsay discuss the legendary deathmatch wrestling of Megumi Kudo, focusing on several matches from her iconic run in FMW.
 
This episode really has everything: barbed wire rings, tiny hatchets, hair drags & powerbombs into more barbed wire, accidental pins, and more.  And at the heart of it, an all-time great joshi whose name deserves ranking among the very best of the best.
 
Our watch list for this episode:
Combat Toyoda vs. Megumi Kudo for the FMW Women’s Championship in a No Ropes Barbed Wire Current Blast Death Match
FMW Fighting Creation ‘96  (5/5/1996)
 
Megumi Kudo & Bison Kimura vs. Lioness Asuka & Shark Tsuchiya in a Scramble Bunkhouse Match
FMW Winning Road 1997  (3/28/1997)
 
Megumi Kudo vs. Mayumi Ozaki in a No Ropes Barbed Wire Barricade Mat Double Hell Death Match
FMW Fighting Creation  (4/18/1997)
 
Shark Tsuchiya vs. Megumi Kudo for the FMW Women’s Championship in a No Ropes Barbed Wire Current Explosion Barricade Double Hell Death Match
FMW Fighting Creation  (4/29/1997)

Summer Swallowed Us Whole (w/ the Enjoy Wrestling roster)

It's the 200th episode of Grit & Glitter!!
Harley drives from Toronto to Pittsburgh to meet up with Em and go backstage at Enjoy Wrestling's Something To Write Home About.  They chat with a cavalcade of stars including Enjoy Champion Edith Surreal, Ray Lyn, GummiBoar, and The Runway as well as Enjoy staff members AJ Small and Maxx Gregg.
Thank you everyone for helping guide us to 200 episodes.  We love you more than words can say.  Here's to 200 more!

California Über Alles: The Lives & Career Of DARK Sheik

Harley and Em are joined by returning guest Brian Bell to present the seventh installment in G&G series "Living Legends."  With this series, we strive to present a definitive look at the lives and careers of some of your favorite active independent wrestlers.  Where did they come from?  How did they get to where they are today?  And why are they so beloved?
This time: it’s DARK Sheik!  From starting training at age 14 to playing heel Sheik Khan Abadi in a post-9/11 world, founding Hoodslam, dying and being reborn, being replaced by an evil robot, training wrestlers like Shotzi and Mansoor, transitioning in front of the world, teaming with The Caution and Thrussy, founding the Church of Wrestling, and palling around with Lita, this is the story of the master mold, the mother brain, the DARK Sheik.
 
Our playlist for this episode:
Sheik Khan Abadi vs. Wild Storm
Big Time Wrestling (10/21/07)
 
The Joker & Harley Quinn vs. Bat Manuela & The Cereal Girl
Hoodslam Femmed Out: Total DIVAstation (2/5/16)
 
DARK Sheik vs. Still Life With Apricots & Pears
GCW Effy's Big Gay Brunch (10/10/20)
 
El Chupacabra vs. DARK Sheik w/Pollo Del Mar for the Golden Gig Championship
Hoodslam Fights Into Dreams (6/3/22)
 
Thrussy vs. Cole Radrick & Brat Pack
GCW Scene Of The Crime (4/22/23)

I Know You Could Be A Danger (w/ The DangerKid)

Jacqui chats with one half of MSP, The DangerKid!
DangerKid talks how he came to his genderfluid nonbinary identity, performing drag for the first time, parallels between drag and wrestling, escapism through art, and his new home away from home at Deadlock Pro Wrestling.

Trying To Butter Up Your Obituary

Harley, Em, and Mayydayy discuss Impact Against All Odds including Masha Slamovich vs. Killer Kelly in a... let's say... provocative?... dog collar match, the return of Nevaeh, Deonna Purrazzo and Trinity teaming together ahead of facing each other at Slammiversary, and speculation on who could be next in line to challenge The Coven for the tag titles.

You Were Born With Glue Instead Of Spine

Season 10 of G&G kicks off with blood and SURVIVAL as Em and Don talk GCW's deathmatch weekend duo of Tournament Of Survival 8 and Cage Of Survival (NOT DEATH!) 2.
 
This year's ToS featured a record number of women competing including GCW Ultraviolent Champion Rina Yamashita, Sawyer Wreck, and Kasey Kirk.  Join us as we break down the breaking glass, light tubes, soda cans, barbed wire, blades, and more.

Fake Flowers To The Grave

On the season 9 finale, Harley and Em discuss the three (sort of) women's matches from AEW Double Or Nothing!
Jade Cargill's undefeated streak comes to an end.  The Outcasts stay outcasting people.  Are we going to get Blood & Guts or not?  What will unfold in Wembley Stadium?  What could a brand split mean for the women's division?  Gather your witches and aliens and let's go quintuple or nothing.

Grit, Glitter & GLOW: Episode One

Welcome, Grit & Glitter listeners, to a brand new Patreon-exclusive show where Em Fear and Val Quartz discuss the Netflix series GLOW episode by episode.
 
In our intro ep, we discuss the pilot episode of the series and its focus trio of Ruth, Debbie, and Sam.  How does a theatre nerd become a pro wrestler?  How much pure rage is fueling Debbie?  How is Sam charismatic while being an undeniable POS?  And does this episode have the worst sex scene ever captured on screen?
 
Plus: we take a look back at the source material, the original Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling, discuss women's wrestling in 2017 - the year the Netflix GLOW premiered, and highlight segments of the 2012 documentary GLOW: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, which we will be highlighting throughout this series.
 
If you enjoy this first episode, be sure to subscribe to the Grit & Glitter Patreon to hear future episodes, follow and support Val, and don't forget to rate and review Grit & Glitter on the podcast app of your choice!